Name: Anonymous 2006-07-31 11:45
Here's what's going on with the damn thing
I bought this 200 gig Maxtor Diamondmax 10 IDE drive about a year and a half ago. It worked perfectly, as did my 160 Western Digital (can't remember the model of that one)
My 160 got a bluescreen error on boot a few weeks ago saying "unmountable boot volume" - I was too lazy to scandisk it at the time, so I just booted to a Knoppix disc for the next two weeks. Finally I got sick of not being able to write to the hard disks, and did the following exactly:
a) Unplugged the IDE cable and power connector from the 200 gig primary slave drive. Took drive out of case and put on desk.
b) Moved the master 160 drive to the back of the HDD carriage, changed the jumper to explicit slave.
c) Took an old 80 gig drive that had SMART errors (because I dropped it on a concrete floor two years ago) yet still booted, on which I had installed a clean copy of XP a year and a half ago and then abandoned because it kept giving me boot errors.
d) The 80 gig booted fine, then entered scandisk mode on the slace drive's primary partition. Scandisk found some file system errors and fixed them.
e) Shutdown, unplugged machine.
f) Moved 160 gig drive to master position, set the jumper exactly the way it was before, and put the 200 gig drive back in. Turned on computer.
g) Now my 200 gig drive is not recognized at all in the BIOS, in either my home machine or my work machine, even when it's the only thing on any of the two IDE buses I have. I've tried every single jumper setting and cable position combination with both drives, and the 200 gigger just isn't seen. I can hear it spinning up and the little faint ratchet noise that means it's seeking, but it doesn't get recognized.
I'm considering putting the damn thing in the freezer in the break room, but don't know how long to put it in for, or when I will be in danger of condensation affecting the circuitry of the drive. I don't think it's been dropped lately either
I bought this 200 gig Maxtor Diamondmax 10 IDE drive about a year and a half ago. It worked perfectly, as did my 160 Western Digital (can't remember the model of that one)
My 160 got a bluescreen error on boot a few weeks ago saying "unmountable boot volume" - I was too lazy to scandisk it at the time, so I just booted to a Knoppix disc for the next two weeks. Finally I got sick of not being able to write to the hard disks, and did the following exactly:
a) Unplugged the IDE cable and power connector from the 200 gig primary slave drive. Took drive out of case and put on desk.
b) Moved the master 160 drive to the back of the HDD carriage, changed the jumper to explicit slave.
c) Took an old 80 gig drive that had SMART errors (because I dropped it on a concrete floor two years ago) yet still booted, on which I had installed a clean copy of XP a year and a half ago and then abandoned because it kept giving me boot errors.
d) The 80 gig booted fine, then entered scandisk mode on the slace drive's primary partition. Scandisk found some file system errors and fixed them.
e) Shutdown, unplugged machine.
f) Moved 160 gig drive to master position, set the jumper exactly the way it was before, and put the 200 gig drive back in. Turned on computer.
g) Now my 200 gig drive is not recognized at all in the BIOS, in either my home machine or my work machine, even when it's the only thing on any of the two IDE buses I have. I've tried every single jumper setting and cable position combination with both drives, and the 200 gigger just isn't seen. I can hear it spinning up and the little faint ratchet noise that means it's seeking, but it doesn't get recognized.
I'm considering putting the damn thing in the freezer in the break room, but don't know how long to put it in for, or when I will be in danger of condensation affecting the circuitry of the drive. I don't think it's been dropped lately either